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Xbox One this summer can run universal Windows apps

Mar

17

2016

The Xbox One will later be able to run this year, apps created for Microsoft’s Universal Windows platform. Redmondse addition, the company is planning to merge its Xbox Store and Windows Store to download store.

The functionality of the Xbox One to run UWP apps is available this summer, Microsoft promised at the Game Developer Conference keynote, reports Business Insider. This Xbox users get access to all the apps that have been developed by this method and are in the store.

At the same time, Microsoft Xbox Store downloads for Xbox and the Windows Store together. The Windows Store is now working on devices running Windows 10 and Windows 10 mobile. With the merger developers can sell applications to eighteen million users over now.

The Redmondse company has earlier announced its platforms to want to merge and said earlier that UWP apps should run on the Xbox One. It had up to now, however, said no specific time when that would be possible.